Skinny water fishing!

Times are hard in my neck of the woods.  Drought has hit the entire part of the country where I am.  Rain is light, rivers and lakes are down.  Some more than others.  This region is full of giant river run reservoir.  Their water outlets are more for the flood control then energy, so we get a lot of fish flushed down into the tail waters.  This had made for some great fishing in a small area.  But when these rivers lose all flow, and hardly run.

This can make a sixteen foot deep river run a foot or two and become only about six feet wide. 

Some days can be slow, and some can be turned around with just two fish.

 Got him on the dropper of a hopper and dropper.  Had this massive hook stuck in its mouth, was about a 6/0.

Drum love crawfish flies.

Some times six or seven fish is great, but some times one or two make four hours worth it.

Welcome to the Bizarre

Fly fishing is a sport that has been wrapped in tradition and placed inside a small can with little room to move.  Up until the last twenty year, most fly fisherman have use small insects to catch trout, and streamers for saltwater fish.  Most often we would use a drift method, but often I found this too little, too boring, and far too little of fish caught.  Trout are fine, but the places and season you can fish for them are limited.  I decided to become part of the revolution.

I’m talking the fisherman who are gunning the fastest rod they can find, the biggest lines and big, ugly flies that they keep moving.  Guys who trade trout for smallies, and leave the tiny streams for massive Muskie waters.   Guys who are looking for monsters, mean like gar, or deadly like sharks.  This is not a place for purists.  It’s a place for those who love predators.  Those who love the monsters that make us remember why we have backing.  To men like us, nothing is off limits and we try everything.  We don’t hate a fish because we are purists, we hate them because we are just don’t like them.  Welcome to the weird, the strange, the Bizarre.  These are White shark custom flies, and this is Bizarre Angling.